Michael Anne Kyle
June 2021
Michael Anne
Kyle
,
RN
Ellison 9 Cardiac ICU
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
,
MA
United States
Michael Anne ran the show and she did it with a calm and poise that really impressed me.
My husband was a patient at MGH for multiple months before having Michael Anne as his nurse which just so happened to be the day before he died. I was able to visit him for the first time in many weeks and the start of the day seemed to be going smoothly. Michael Anne was kind, compassionate, and very accommodating to me (a visitor finally being allowed in).
Then the wheels came off. His condition spiraled downward. Michael Anne allowed me to stay in the room, even encouraged me to stay close to him - as she knew how helpful it was to his mental status to have his wife close at hand. I'm so incredibly thankful I got to stay because I got to witness the INCREDIBLE work that Michael Anne and the entire team did that day. Between five to eight people were working on him for several hours - pushing meds, drawing blood, running ultrasounds, checking vitals, changing IVs.... It was a lot of activity and a LOT of things going wrong, but Michael Anne ran the show and she did it with a calm and poise that really impressed me.
She saw the whole picture and delegated tasks accordingly. She stopped to explain things to me when she could. Within several hours she had gotten my husband to a stable point. She then focused on the mountainous task of documenting everything that had happened. She stayed more than two hours past the end of her 12-hour shift to ensure everything was passed off properly. She stopped in before she left so I could hug her and thank her for fighting so incredibly hard for my husband all day. I knew she was exhausted physically and mentally, but she took the time to check in with our family and make sure we were taken care of. That was a very scary day, one I will not soon forget. But it would have been much worse had it not been for the skill, leadership, and amazing compassion of Michael Anne and her team.
She gave me another day with my husband. She gave his parents another day with their son. My husband would be called to his heavenly home the next day - but we were able to be with him one last day and that made a world of difference at the end of his earthly life. I'll never be able to thank her enough for what she gave us, but I hope this DAISY Award nomination can serve as a small token of our appreciation and gratitude.
Then the wheels came off. His condition spiraled downward. Michael Anne allowed me to stay in the room, even encouraged me to stay close to him - as she knew how helpful it was to his mental status to have his wife close at hand. I'm so incredibly thankful I got to stay because I got to witness the INCREDIBLE work that Michael Anne and the entire team did that day. Between five to eight people were working on him for several hours - pushing meds, drawing blood, running ultrasounds, checking vitals, changing IVs.... It was a lot of activity and a LOT of things going wrong, but Michael Anne ran the show and she did it with a calm and poise that really impressed me.
She saw the whole picture and delegated tasks accordingly. She stopped to explain things to me when she could. Within several hours she had gotten my husband to a stable point. She then focused on the mountainous task of documenting everything that had happened. She stayed more than two hours past the end of her 12-hour shift to ensure everything was passed off properly. She stopped in before she left so I could hug her and thank her for fighting so incredibly hard for my husband all day. I knew she was exhausted physically and mentally, but she took the time to check in with our family and make sure we were taken care of. That was a very scary day, one I will not soon forget. But it would have been much worse had it not been for the skill, leadership, and amazing compassion of Michael Anne and her team.
She gave me another day with my husband. She gave his parents another day with their son. My husband would be called to his heavenly home the next day - but we were able to be with him one last day and that made a world of difference at the end of his earthly life. I'll never be able to thank her enough for what she gave us, but I hope this DAISY Award nomination can serve as a small token of our appreciation and gratitude.